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How Corn IS Canned.

The canned corn offered for sale, in
stores is preserved in tin cans by those
who make business of it. The cans
have an opening at one end closed by a.
cap, which fits into a groove. Great
care is taken to select the best kind of
corn, to gather it at the right time, and
to can it Immediately after it is gathered.
It should never remain over four hours
before canning. The corn is cut from
the cobs with curved knife made for the
purpose, taking care not to cut too close
t, the cob. The cobs are boiled in
water, Just enough to cover them, for an
hour. The cans, with the covers SOL
dered on, are filled with corn through the
opening for the cap, pressing it in hard, but
leaving space about fourth of an inch
at the top to allow for expansion. The
LIQUOR obtained by boiling the cobs is
added, sufficient to cover the corn in the
cans, and if not of the sweetest kin !, q
teaspoonful of white sugar is added.
The next step is to solder on the caps,
each of which has in its center q small
hole pricked, called the vent. After the
caps are soldered on, and the vent still
open, the caps are "processed." A ket-
tie or vat is provided. containing water,
in which the cans may be boiled for the
required time. The cans of corn are {
boiled for two hours, when they are
taken out, one at a time, with tongs made
for the purpose, set down with shock
on the soldering table, to remove any
corn that may stop the vent. The head
of the can is wiped with cold, wet
cloth, and the vent closed with drop OF
solder. The cans are then returned to
the vat, and boiled for four hours
american Agricnlturist.
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Foreign.

The Alfred Adams, British Columbia
sailing vessel seized by an American revenue
cutter for unlawful sealing in Alaskan waters,
estaped by a trick. A prize crew of only
two men was placed on board the captured
vessel, and her captain was ordered to pro-
pany with the revenue cutter, he coolly sailed
for Victoria, British Columbia.
A LARGE number Of officials and merchants
have been arrested at Vienna for connection
with extensive frauds on the Custom House.
ANOTHER person died from the effects Of
injuries received during the rioting at Mitch
ellstown, Ireland, making three victims; and
two others were not expected to recover.
Fifty-four constables were under the doctors
care, and $50 civilians were injured.
FIRE destroyed the British ship Clyde,
from Leith for Quebec, in mid-ocean. The
crew was rescued by a passing vessel.
A FRENCH smack reports the loss Of ves-
sci with fifty hands in the English Channel.
SIR CHARLES YOUNG, the well known Eng
lish play wright, author of the successful
drama, Jim the Penman," is dead.
DURING hurricane off the Grand Banks
of Newfoundland fourteen men belonging to
the Nova Scotia schooner Maria were lost.
MooNLIGHTERs killed one constable and
mortally wounded another near Ennis, Ire
land. Five moonlighters were captured.
THREE soldiers at Trapani, Italy, were
sent to perform dsinfecting duty, and were
assailed by mob, who tried to force them
to swallow carbolic acid, which they had
been sprinkling about the streets and
houses. One of the soldiers imbibed the
liquid, and soon afterward died in horrible
agony. The other two refused to drink the
acid, and were killed
THE British bark Balaklava, from London
hound for San Francisco, lost ten men in a
heavy storm.
THE National Prison Congress has been in
session at Toronto Questions relating to
the condition of prisons and prisoners were
diScusS;,d
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O'BRIEN'S ARREST.
The Irish Home Rule Leader and
Editor in Custody.

The irish Home kulc LcQOcr duU
Editor in Custody.
Mr.. O'Brien was arrested in Dublin Sun
day while seeing Mr.. Labouchere, the
editor of London Truth, of on the
steamer.
Mr.. O'Brien spent the day at Ballybrack
with Messrs. Dillon and Harrington. He re-
ceived telegram from Mr.. Labouchere and
Mr.. Drummer, requesting him to accompany
them to London Mr.. O'Brien, accom-
panied by Mr.. Harrington, went on board
the Kingstown boat for the purpose of declin.
ing the invitation to 60 to London, when a
detective met him and said he would not be
arrested if he pledged himself not to 60 to
England.
Mr. O'Br:en refused this condition, when
he was taken into custody and escorted to
the Imperial Hotel by the detective, who in
formed him that he could stay there all night
il he would give a promise that he would
not make a speech.
This promise was not given, and Mr..
O'Brien addressed crowd from the balcony
of the hotel. In the course of his brief re-
marks he said:
$50 long as there is breath in my body
my voice will not be silent until am gagged.
I am proud to suffer for Mitchellstown
When in Kingstown was told that would
not be arrested if did not undertake to go to
England. That shows that the government
is beginning to dread us i'll England"
Mr.. UBrien in an interview on the subject
of his arrest, said ho hal no intention Of
going to England when he boarded the boat
Hc merely went there to see Mr.. Labouchere.
As to making n speech Mt the hotel h, said he
had no idea Of doing so until the detective
mentioned it. He was taken to prison ut
Cork, and confined in small cell
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

New York is threatened with IL great sur
plus of theatres.
The mclograph has been invented, by
which person can inn rnNiSe Oh piano alld
have the music recorded.
SIR CHARLES YOUNG, the author of "Jim,
the Penman," is dying slowly in London from
q complication of diseases.
NINE NIEMANN RAABE, the great German
comed;enne, will appear Mt the Star Theatre,
New York, on January I'd.
MRS. LANGTRY has replaced Charles
Coghlan with Maurice Barrymore as her
eading man for the coming season.
THE first Italian woman who sang in pub
lie in England was Francesca Margherita dc
rEpine, who appeared i'll various operas In
1858.
MEssRs RoBsoN AND CRANE, during
their ten years partnership, have PAID III
royalties to American dranat;sts nearly
$4,000.
MABEL STERLING is tho name of n Ken
lucky girl who proposes to come 1orth as
star this season. She IS described US young
and handsome.
MILE. TEREsINA TUA the celebrated vio-
lin PLAYER, will make her first public appear
ance in America at Chickering Hall, New
York, on October IL.
NINE ADELINA PATTI does not begin her
South American tour, under the management
of Mr.. Henry Abbey, until some time in the
Spring, and after Lent.
The tenor, De Rege, engaged for the next
season at the theatre III Cologne, while out
bathing with q lady short time ago ON the
Main, was drowned with his companion
THE German Government has issued the
order that lowers the pitch of all orchestras
and pianos full half tone. This brings the
standard pitch of France and Germany the
same.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE New Yorks have played twenty five
different men this seasoL,
CLARKsoN, the Chicago pitcher, is still
suffering from lame arm.
The indianapolis League nine has been
shut out six times this season.
ACDRAIN COUNTY, Missouri, has baseball
club composed Of nine brothers.
BosToN'S Mayor occasionally takes in the
ball games at the Boston grounds
BENNETT is now making up for lost time
and doing nearly all of Detroit'S catching.
Our of IA games pitched by Getzein on
the last Eastern trip Of the Detroits, he won
eight.
THE Association teams will make some
wholesale releases at the end of the present
season.
PRESIDENT SPALDING says that he will
sell the release of almost any man on the
Chicago team for $4,000.
CAPTAIN ANSoN now says he is sorry the
Chicagoes parted with Kelly, whose release
WIS sold to Boston for 10000.
THE minor leagues are rapidly going to
pieces. Even the strong International
League has lost about half its climbs.
MANAGER JOHN KELLY is reported to
have said that temperance plank will be
inserted in every Louisville players contract
next season.
THE Boston Pittsburg 2s-14 score of
August 81 was the biggest made this season
In the League ranks The next biggest was
New York ", indianapolis &, a total of 81
runs
SIX Of the Bostons have made 100 safe hits
more than in any other team. Five of the
Detroits have got there, and three each of the
Chicagos, New Yorks, Philadelphias and
Indianapolis.
The latest reports from Chicago make
Spalding say: ~ look to see the League
circuit for next year composed Of Boston.
New York, Brooklyn and Philadelphia in
the East, and Detroit, Chicago, st. Louis and
Pittsburg in the West
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A SCHOONER FOUNDERS.
From Ten to Fifteen Persons Lost
in Lake Superior.

From Ten to Fifteen Persons Lost
in Lake Superior.
A Marquette (iich.) dispatch says that the
schooner Niagara, which sailed last week
from Ashland for Ashtabula, foundered six
miles above White Fish Point in a heavy
gale.
The crew Of ten men were lost. The Cap
tain was H. Clement, and his family are said
to have been on board with him. The
schooner was ore-laden, and must have sunk
at once.
Captain Delos Waite, Of the steamer Idaho,
reports passing the wreck Of the Niagara.
She lies in nine fathoms Of water ten miles
from White Fish Point aud five miles
from shore Her mizzenmast just reached
above water and her main and fore
masts were floating near with other pieces of
wreckage Captain Waite saw no traces OF
any of her ill-fated crew, and says that,
though not many miles from the shore
and the White Fish Point Life Saving
Station, no small boat could have lived in
the terrible sea which was running there
on Wednesday The United Empire, which
arrived at the Sault during the day, reported
that it was the worst sea her crew ever e1-
was still running.
particulars of the disaster: The schooner
Niagara, laden with ore and towing with the
steam-barge Australasia, broke her tow
line off White Fish Point, Lake
Superior, during a westerly storm and
went down in deep water with all on board.
The captains wife and family and crew Of
ten men were included in the lost The
Niagara was owned by Corrigan &c Co., OF
Cleveland, and was valued at $50, 900.
White Fish Point is at the Lake Superior
entrance to the straits connecting Lake
out from the shore of the Upper Michigan
peninsula, and it is only few miles across to
the Canadian shore. The port which the
Niagara left is Ashland, Wis, and she was
bound for Ashtabula, Ohio, on Lake Erie
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Superstition Among Polish People.

There is venerable superstition among
Polish people that when crow alights-
on q house it portends death to one or
more of the occupants. When, about g.
o'clock Thursday morning, couple of
birds of this species were deserted calmly
perched on the roof of one Of Poland's
sons on Racine street, north of Brady, fhes
neighborhood, which is inhabited almost
entirely by Poles, was thrown into the
greatest excitement. In less than half
an hour the street was filled with people,
the proportions of the crowd attracting
the attention of the police. Hostile!
demonstrations caused the sable-hued
birds to fly to an adjoining roof. Up
popped an upper story window in the
next house, woman's head appeared,
and in evident alarm the woman waved
an apron meaningly at the "birds of evil
omen" Instead of being frightened
away, the crows took the waving of
the apron as mark of welcome, and
changed their position from the roof Of
her neighbor to her own housetop. By
this time the excitement of the crowd
below had grown to fever pitch. Women
were shedding tears or mumbling q
prayer. while little children clung to-
their skirts, unable to make out what was
the matter. Men and women were gath
cred in knots, all gesticulating and jab-
boring at once, but all keeping weather
eye open and a pocketful of stones ready
in case the birds should steer for their
own premises. Finally the crows began
to fly from house to house, and then there
was shower of stones as thick as hail,
men, women and boys being engaged in
the fusillade, amid the most indescribable-
excitement. The birds few from house
to house until they had taken in the en-
tire square. Finally they distanced their
yelling pursuers. -
AS the people returned to their homes
many offered prayers for themselves and
families. One old man who believes in Z
the superstition said in his broken Eng
liah:
'It must be so now that we all die.
You see, some terrible sickness spread
among US. ."-Mluaukee Sentinel.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eas,er, md Middle States.

A PRELIMINARY organization of the new
American party has been made in Pittsburgh.
THREE men were buried alive under l2J
feet of earth by a cave-in at the new ac-
queduct, YonkerS, n. y.
THE Governor of Connecticut has received
from Colonel Thomas G.. Jones, of Alabama,
the old battle hag of the Sixteenth Connecti-
cut Volunteers, captured at Plymouth, NC,
in April, 1864.
THE Pennsylvania Railroads roundhouse,
machine shops. five locomotives and SIX
tanks were destroyed by fire at Lewistown,
Penn.
C. B. IDE, Sundav-school Superintendent
of Glens Falls, n, v, and booEkeeper OF the
First National Bank, has confessed to stealing
SIS, 600 of the institutions funds.
HERR Most, the Anarchist leader. wanted
to declare his intentions of becoming citizen
of the United States in New York Few Gays
ago: but as the questions pat to him regarding
his allegiance to thu laws of this country were
unsatisfactory, his application was refused
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Drugging Criminals.

A Paris communication says that the
study of hypnotism "has become apasslon
among medical men, who say it may
greatly help legal procedure, inasmuch as
by sending criminals to sleep and drag
ging their secret from them while under
hypnotic influence there would be little
fear of Judges condemning the innocent
for the guilty. A theft i'll the hospital
was found out in this way by DR.. Marie,
for many years Dr. Charcot's assistant.
The sub ect refused at FIRST to tell where
the stolen object was concealed: After
a little diplomacy, However, on the part
ing girl he was the young man from
whom the card case had been taken and
not to fear telling him where it was, she
gave the detailed account of having
Stolen it, and told where the card case
was to be found. DR.. Marie Immediately
went to the spot indicated, where, sure
enough, the stolen article was found.
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THE FLOOR GAVE WAY.
Fatal Accident ut q Revival in a
Tennessee Church.

Fatal Accident ut a Revival in q
Tennessee Church.
A terrible accident is reported from Need
more, small village in Tennessee. Rev. ].
M. Carter and DR.. Logan were to speak there
in favo: of prohibition. When they arrived
they found a big revival in progress, and
did not speak. The revival was being con-
Quoted i'll q two-story church building, the
upper floor being used for church pur-
poses and the lower floor given up
exclusively to school purposes. There
was an immense audience in the
upper story listening attentively to the exhor-
tation of the minister, when suddenly the rear
floor gave way with crash, carrying sixty
or seventy people with it. The fall was thir-
teen feet, and hardly one of them escaped inju-
ry. The injured were quickly rescued from the
wreck, and three Of them found to be serious
ly injured One man was fatally hurt. Every
physician in the country was Immediately
sent for, and the work of relieving the in
iured promptly begun.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

The game of chess was invented COS
B. C.
Lanterns were invented by Alfred the
Great, in $50.
Diamonds were first set and polished
at Bruges, in 1850.
A St. Catharines (Ontario) barber
owns dog which can climb lamp-post
as readily as could street gamin.
Farmers around the natural gas wells
of Indiana harvested their grain by gas
light, aud thus escased the heat of the
sun.
Annie Mercer, of Missaukee county,
Mich, promises to become a giantess.
She is only in her twelfth year, and yet:
she is trite over six feet in stature. ~
The wearing of false hair was intro
duced into England from France in
1872. The practice was introduced into
the latter country from Italy, where it.
originated.
In 1888 Hecla, in Iceland, elected two
streams of lava forty or fifty miles long,
seven to thirteen miles broad, and 100 to
600 feet deep, which destroyed 5000
persons and twenty villages. "a
As part of a real estate auction in q
Wisconsin town; a deed to lot was
thrown out of a balloon. Now they are,
booming that town by asserting that.
"real estate has taken a wonderful rise;
here lately" :2s4
Paper made of cotton was in use in
the eleventh century; made of linen, in
1919; and its manufacture was first in-
troduced into England in 1888. The
use of straw in paper manufacture dates
back to the opening year of the present
century.
Recent measurement of their collins
shows that the average ancient Roman
could not have been more than five feet
five inches tall. The mummy of Cleo
patrl measures four feet six. Within.
the last FIVE hundred years the height OF
the English ariscocracy has considerably
increased.
"Violet stones" are species of porous
rock found in the Hartz Mountains. The,
moss known as violet moss, which emits
an ordor similar to that of violets, covers
the stone thickly, and fills its porous sur
face. The odor is said to be retained
sometimes for years, and is increased by
moistening the stone. They are much.
sought after in Europe as a means of
permanently perfuming toilet articles.
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Humorous Scenes in O Bank.

The Chicago Herald has the following
about what is seen and heard in bank:
As queer things happen sometimes at
the banks as anywhere else. 1t was
not long ago that a galootish-looking
fellow walked into the First National
and asked for certificate of deposit.
He counted out his money and handed
it through the window. The teller took
it, counted it, and threw it into his box:
Then taking his great canvas covered
book, wherein are entered the signatures
of the thousands of people who hold
certificates of the First National, he
threw it around and passed it through
for the galoot to sign. The next instant,
when the teller looked up, the deposition
was half way down the big banking room
with the great book under his arm and
making for the door. There were the
money boxes to look out for and the
drawers to close, and the clerk could get
out in pursuit only by running down and
around 10) feet Of counters. He didn't
try to do all these things. He halloed
to the nearest customer he saw outside to
run and stop that fellow with the great
canvas covered book. That was no diff.
cult matter. The man was making his
way painfully and slowly down Dear
born Street, and came back cheelfully.
lie thought that that forty-pound book,
he sai1, was his certificate Of deposit.
A rather ni>c- BLOCKING, but matronly-
looking, young woman began depositing
S1nOa week at the First National. She
came so regularly, always with the same
amount, that the young man at the win
dow made bold to congratulate her that
she was doing so we'll in her business.
"Don't give me away" she said in a
friendly tone; "my husband is a bar
ton1pr y
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A GOVERNOR DEAD.

CALIFORNIA; Chief Executive Dies
After a Long Illness.
Governor Washington Bartlett, of Califor-
mia, died on Monday at his residence in Oak
land, after suffering several months from
Brieht's disease and having been partially
paralyzed about the 1st of August last
Mr.. Bartlett was born at Savannah Ga,
sixty-threc years ago and became citizen OF
California in 1850, settling at San Francisco,
where he published the first daily news
paDer issued in that city. Nine years later
he was elected County Clerk, and in 1870 he
became Harbor Commissioner. He was elected
Mayor of San Francisco in 1892 and was re-
elected ut the end of his first term. Last
year he defeated Mr.. Swift, the Republican,
candidate for Governor.
The Lieutenant Governor, H. W. Waller
man, who succeeds him, is Republican.
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SLAIN BY A BULL.
AFarmer Knocked Down and Goreo
IN Death in His Own Pasture.

TO DcdCn o"h
Farmer Lyman, resident of the southern
mart Of Downers Grove township, Illinois,
was gored to death a few days since by
bull. Mr.. Lyman and another man went into
the pasture to look at some cattle, when the
bull attacked his owner and gored
him in horrible manner. His companion
ESCAPED to a barn, and he and another man
monpted horses, armed themselves with
pitehforks and galloped back to the rescue.
They were too late, however. for Mr. Lyman
was dead. The bull stood near the
mutilated body, believing =, angrlly.
His eyes were rolling, froth was
dripping from his mouth and his
his tail was lashing the air. The horsemeI1
charged upon him with the pitcbforks, ano
after a stubborn fight he ran away. Return,
ing to the body of Mr.. Lyman, the men founo
IL terribly mutilated and disfgured. One ear
was torn off and he was nearly dlsemooweled.
Mr.. Lymans companion says that when tne
infuriated bull first knocked his VIC.
tim down Mr.. Lyman lay still, and tne
animal simply walked around his prostraH
form, paving and believing. 1t was tnen
that the eyewitness ran for horse, thinking
that Mr.. Lyman would lie still until ht
should arrive armed. It is supposed that Mr:
LYMAN got up, and that the act was the slg
nal for the animal to renew.the attack, Whlci
resulted in the death of Mr.. Lyman.
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A LONG TRANCE.
A Woman Who Has Been in a Cata,
leptic State For Ten Months.

ICpllC oIdtc UT len OnCnS.
Mrs. John Herbert, the now celebrated
cataleptic, confined in st. Josephs Hospital
at Joliet, H., and who has been in a con.
tnuous sleeping trance or cataleptic state
now ten months, remains about the same,
with the exception that she talks more than
when her case was last written up Her talk
is principally about something to eat She
is continually ordering her meals, but her
appetite has not improved any. The eyes
still remain closed, the muscles rigid, and the
joints stitfened She stands in any position
she is placed in, like statue, till moved, and
the limbs will remain in any position in
which they are placed until changed. She
mas but Slight senstb;lity to pain, and is
perfect human automaton. Sometimes she
cries, not aloud, but with seeming suppressed
grief. AT other times she smiles, but never
laughs aud!bly. She has become q great
and on Sundays the a place '' is SS crowded Ike q
museum.
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Washington

A TREASURY AGENTS report on the
Alaskan seal fisheries says $1,000 sealskips
have been unlawfully taken the past season
by marauders
THE International Medical Congress
ended on Saturday. Resolutions compli-.
mentary to the President and Mrs. Cleveland
were passed.
THE President has pardoned Thomas r.
Knight, John A. Brooks and Henry Patz, Of
Arkansas, convicted of murder. He was sat
isfied that rashness, not malice, influenced the
crime.
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IN Salem, ILL.,, flock Of $50 sheep were
overtaken in their pasture by fire. They at
once made for knoll in the field, and there
punched themselves, with the lambs in the
middle, and began moving in a circle, tread
ing the weeds and grass into the dry earth
until the fire was out.